Shout by Tim Kretschmann

Hereditary 2018

A comedy should be judged by if you laugh. A horror movie should be judged by if it is frightening. If this movie was judged by its ability to put an audience to sleep, it would be great. It's a horror movie, though, so a fail. I'm not saying I saw the end coming, but all the characters acted like they were just serving the plot instead of being actual people. Toni Collette's performance (or was it the script?) was incredibly uneven as she moved from unaffected to completely traumatized...sometimes within the same sequence. I actually liked the final story reveal and it was certainly built throughout. The problem is it took forever to get there and I hated every character so much, I couldn't care less if they lived or died. Garbage that every critic wanted to use "heightened" in a review will be lining up to kiss its ass. Here's the thing...my theater was full and never even a gasp. Did hear one dude snoring, though. See at your own risk.

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@tkpnpodcast I wholeheartedly agree! They could've edited probably 45 minutes of it and it would've still been a snoozefest and the ending made it even worse LOL!

@tkpnpodcast This is the farthest one can be from it, chief.

@phantom103 We won't be agreeing on this. This may have been my least liked film I saw in a theater of all last year...and with MoviePass I saw 80 movies. I aggressively disliked it. Glad you found some value there. I felt bored.

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